DNTEL - Life Is Full Of Possibilities - anyone heard any tracks?

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Has anyone heard any tracks from DNTEL - Life is Full of Possibilities yet?

this is the press release info and even the NME have a Dntel profile this week.

DNTEL - Life Is Full Of Possibilities

Label - Plug Research Released on 19/11/01

From (almost) nowhere, and with the help of SLINT/THE FOR CARNATION's BRIAN McMAHAN , DNTEL have come up with ONE OF THE LEFTFIELD ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, a STUNNING album of electronica and post rock...... A blissed out album with lush female vocals, minimal techno, haunting melodies buried in static, cut up acoustic guitars, sampled symphonies, found sounds and drones. The album also features vocal contributions from Chris Gunst (Beachwood Sparks) and Rachel Haden (That Dog). FILE NEXT TO: FOUR TET/MINOTAUR SHOCK/SIGUR ROS/LOW/BASIC CHANNEL/4AD

― DJ Martian, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I've only heard little bits of a few tracks. One was indeed pretty damn good, sort of dark, melancholy, minimal house-y stuff. For a lot of the rest, the press release above sort of makes sense. But the vocal tracks... yuck. Minimal glitch + emo vocals sounds really bad on paper, and not much better on disc.

― charlie va, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

If I'd written a haunting melody, I'd think it a bit wanky and cliched to then bury it in static.

― Tom, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

http://electronicmusicreviews.com/ has a review of it this week.

― todd burns, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

If I'd created some haunting static, I'd think it a bit wanky and cliched to then coat it with melody. ;-)

― Clarke B., Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

brian mcmahan? i thought this was a figurine side project, glad to know i won't need to bother with it then.

― keith, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

8 years pass...

Used to be madly in love with the sort of sounds cointaned in this album.

Listening to this today again after almost 6 years of not touching it and it's flooring me how good some of it still sounds. Sure, 'Evan and Chan' is the definite highlight and it's one of the most perfect pop songs of the past decade but 'last songs' and the joints with Mia Doi Todd and Rachel Haden are really good as well... don't know for how long they will hold my interest this time around.

― Moka, Saturday, 17 April 2010 21:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

hahahaha, oh old-ILM paws...

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 17 April 2010 22:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Is there some new Dntel?

― djh, Saturday, 28 July 2012 20:14 (9 months ago) Permalink

FILE NEXT TO: LOW/SIGUR ROS

― you're all going to hello (Z S), Saturday, 28 July 2012 20:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

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